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House Democrats swept into power Tuesday night on the strength of vows to protect the Affordable Care Act and check the Trump administration. Now it's up to a longtime congressman from New Jersey to keep that promise.

With Democrats running the House, one of the biggest headaches for President Donald Trump could be the release of his tax returns, which he has long refused to make public.

The new Democratic majority will request President Trump’s tax returns immediately under the section of the tax code that allows them to review the documents, a senior lawmaker said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — Democrats rode a wave of health care messaging into a majority of the House of Representatives, projections showed Tuesday, propelled by vows to protect Americans with pre-existing health conditions and dramatically lower prescription drug costs.

President Donald Trump suggested in an interview that he could sign an executive order eliminating automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. to noncitizens. If he follows through, the order would undoubtedly set off a legal challenge that would ultimately end at the U.S. Supreme Court.

“The burdens imposed by closing the on-campus early voting location fall particularly and disproportionately on the county’s young voters, who are significantly more likely to live on or near campus and are less likely to have easy, immediate access to reliable transportation to vote off-campus,” Beth Stevens, the Texas Civil Right's Project's voting rights legal director, wrote.

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett has criticized President Trump's plan to deploy U.S. military personnel to deter an incoming migrant caravan as election-eve pandering to his anti-immigrant base.